July Public Meeting | Women in Space: The history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome!

We'll be in the Function Room on the first floor of the Caulfield RSL. The venue is disabled friendly and includes a lift. Meals are available at reasonable prices. Ample car parking is available immediately behind the RSL or in St Georges Road. Trams and trains run within 200 metres of the venue.

The meeting will be streamed live and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel here - SAA.TV.

WOMEN IN SPACE is a special video presentation that traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program. 

Some, like aviators Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb, passed the same gruelling tests as male astronauts, only to be dismissed by NASA, the military, and even Lyndon Johnson, as a distraction. It wasn’t until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a spacecraft. The program includes interviews with Collins, as well as Sally Ride’s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station. The hour ends with the next generation of women engineers, mathematicians and astronauts—the new group of pioneers, like Marleen Martinez, who continue to make small but significant steps forward. 

Narrated by Jodie Foster.

The meeting will be streamed live here!